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` Shoe. No. 242,179. Patented May 31,1881.

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PATENT OFFICE.

SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,179, dated May 31, 1881.

Application letl February 23, 1881.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. BANoRoFT, of Reading, in the county of Middli sex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a shoe embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a lengthwise section of such shoe. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectionof the last and lasted shoebefore it is turned.

My invention relates to that class ot' shoes called turns or turned shoes,77 which are too well known to need description; and it consists in securing the upper partly to the outer sole in the usual way and partly to an extra piece, which is between the upper and outer sole, and which is chami'ered or skived properly to tit, and the outer sole and outer piece being united firmly together in the nished shoe. The extra piece may be used at the heel to form a spring-heel, or at the fore part to form a tuck or half-sole.

In the drawings,A is the upper, B the outer sole, and C the extra piece. The oute1'sole,B, is applied to the last D in the usual manner, and the extra piece C is placed outside of the outer sole, as in Fig. 3. The shoe having been lasted, the upper is sewed to the outer sole, B, and extra piece G by stitches G, thestitches being the same as in turned shoes, except that some of them unite the upper to the outer sole, while others do not unite the upper to the outer sole, but only to piece C, for when the last is pulled and the shoe turned the upper will not (No model.)

be attached to the outer sole when the outer sole is covered by the extra pieceC. The nails F are to hold the outer sole, B,and extra piece G firmly together.

Sewing or other suitable means of fastening may be used in lieu of the nails F.

I am aware that turned shoes have been made by splitting the outer sole after the shoe was turned and inserting an extra. piece like the piece C, as described in United States Patent No. 230,649, dated 'August 3, 1880; and I -do not,therefore, make any claim to the extra piece C, except when secured to the upper and between the upper and outer sole, and also secured to the outer sole, as described.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. That improvement in the process of constructing turned shoes consisting in lasting the shoe wrong side out, placing the sole B upon the sole of the last and a heel or halfsole piece, C, upon the outside of sole B, then uniting a circumferential portion of theupper to the sole only by a line of stitches, and the remaining portion of the upper to the piece C only in the same manner, then turning the shoe, and lastly securing the sole B and piece G together, all substantially as set forth.

2. The improved shoe above described, one portion of the upper A of which is sewed directly to the piece C and the remainder ot' the upper A of which is sewed directly to the sole B, the piece() and the sole B being secured together, as set forth.

JAMES A. BANCROFT.

Witnesses z.

W. A. GoPELAND, J oHN R. SNOW. 

